Ford Fiesta ST review: still the best small hot hatchback on the road

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It’s all good and well building a class leader. Make no mistake, doing so is a feat worthy of great approbation – and to be the maker of the best car in its class is impressive. But class leaders come and go, and often all it takes is something newer and cleverer to come along and yesterday’s flavour of the month is today’s ‘also consider’.

But to build a car that remains at the very top of its class even when it’s at the end of its life, after newer rivals having come along and taken their best shot – and missed? That’s quite something.

Yet even as the last Ford Fiesta ST bowed out, it was still winning group tests, still earning itself five-star reviews, and still at the top of many a hot...

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